Read about the Network and the experiences of those who have engaged with us.
In partnership with the provincial Ministry of Health, Providence Health Care (who manages the virtual clinic), BC’s regional health authorities, research organizations, and patients across B.C., PHSA’s Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network supports research, education and care, to help people living with persistent symptoms of COVID-19.
What is the Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network (video)
Vision
People with long COVID have access to balanced and sustainable support from BC's health-care system.
Mission
Enabling a person-centered, provincial network that provides access to long COVID recovery resources and research opportunities.
Values
- Accountability
- Collaboration
- Compassion
- Equity
- Quality
- Transparency
The Network’s mandate is to provide care and support to patients who have acquired COVID-19 and who experience persistent symptoms.
This work puts B.C. at the forefront of a global effort to gain new knowledge and provide coordinated care for people with long COVID. It provides leadership in long COVID care that is founded on evidence from research.
The work of the Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network is:
- Patient informed: Patients who have recovered from persistent symptoms of COVID-19 and patients at high risk of serious disease have been a fundamental part of the Network from the beginning.
- Interdisciplinary: The Post-COVID Recovery Clinic brings different perspectives and expertise to patients’ care and treatment plans, including nurses, social workers, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. As needed, clinic staff will connect patients with physician specialists.
- Collaborative: All of the team members work to collaborate with patients, and with doctors and nurse practitioners in the community.
- Research and evidence-based: Our research coordination working group oversees research budgets, patient registries and biobanks. This ensures that research activities are rigorous, relevant to patients and communities, and embedded in a research programme that will result in better results for patients and cost-savings to the system.
- Supportive: Our education working group develops the resources to ensure that patients and families understand their condition as well the services available to them from the health care system.
Established in fall 2020, the Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network includes clinicians, academics, and patients who provide leadership to long-COVID recovery care in BC by strengthening collaboration, developing clinical best practices, coordinating research, and enhancing access to care. PHSA provides provincial oversight and support to the Network.
Through proactive planning and outreach, the Network has partnerships with patients, academic organizations, health-care agencies, and health authority partners across the British Columbia.
Our partners include:
- Providence Health Care
- BC's regional health authorities: Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health, Vancouver Coastal Health
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- BC Ministry of Health
- BC Renal
- Divisions of Family Practice: Patient Attachment Initiative
- First Nations Health Authority
- Michael Smith Health Research BC
- Provincial Virtual Health
- Rural Coordination Centre of BC
- Shared Care BC
- Simon Fraser University Faculty of Health Science
- University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Nursing and the School of Population and Public Health
In 2025, we conducted interviews and a focus group with people with lived or living experience of long COVID. Our goal was to better understand the patient journey in BC. Through this process, we learned that what matters most to people living with long COVID is:
- Having their experience validated by other
- Accessing health care and peer support
- Learning how to live well with their symptoms.
PC-ICCN is using this feedback to look at improvements in the referral process and workflows in the Post-COVID Recovery Clinic.
With input from the project participants, we developed a visual summary of what we learned. The visual is framed around the four main steps in the patient journey; awareness, access, ongoing care and exit from formal care.
Read the visual summary.
Learn more about how the Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network has helped patients recover and get back to living their normal lives.
